Launch("tel:" & fieldname) question

[jrines]

I am calling to a SharePoint List that has all of my vender telephone numbers.

I have a field call Office Phone.

I want to create a button that will call the number in the field from my iphone

I update the button property in the OnSelect field with Launch("tel:" & Office_x0020_Phone) and it does not work

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks

[HenryMabuti]

Hi Chris,

Here's the latest session details that I attempted a few minutes ago:

Session ID: d4dd4d14-511f-6b16-e798-7769c972ad47

Kind Regards,

Henry

[Chris]

Thank you, Henry.  We have found the issue and are working on a fix.

[HenryMabuti]

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the quick response.

I shall wait for the "fix" then.

Cheers,

Henry

[Chris]

There seems to be a workaround: using "tel://" instead of "tel:" works.  Could you please confirm?

[HenryMabuti]

Hi Chris,

Your suggested workaround "tel://" works.  

Is "tel:" should not be used from now on, or it would be restored in the future? 

Thanks

Henry

[Chris]

We will restore it in the future.

[jrines]

My original Post was asking for help with the syntax of the launch command calling to a list field that has a telephone number.  I cannot get it to work.  It was a great discussion discovering that the "tel:" command has been updated.

Do you have any input or suggestions for my question below?

Recap:

I have a Share Point List with vendor names and telephone numbers.  There is a field named Phone that has the vendor telephone number.  I want to be able to lookup the vendor and call from my iPhone.

I created an app.  I can lookup the vendor. 

I added a Button and on the OnSelect I added the following command:  Launch("tel:" & Phone) and now changed it to Launch("tel://" & Phone) and it does not work.

When I run the app and hit the Button nothing happens.

If I change the OnSelect command to Launch("tel: 4431234567") where I hard code the telephone number it works.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you.

[jarrystowe]

Hi Jrines - how does your 'OnCurrent' know which record / phone # to populate there?  If you put a text box and make it's text ["tel:"& Phone] - it should give you an error like "Expecting table, got text" or something?  You would need to do a lookup or filter.. ex ["tel:"&LookUp(Phone#Table,VendorName in VendorNameTextBox.Text,Phone)] Or if using gallery to select ["tel:"&LookUp(Phone#Table, VendorName in GalleryX.Selected.VendorName,Phone)]

[jrines]

Hello jarrystowe

I appreciate your input.  I am new at this so please go easy.

My app layout:

All venders are listed in BrowseGallery by name

I select a Vender and it goes to Detail screen showing Name address and telephone number

On the Detail screen I added a Button.

In the OnSelect function of the Button, I added Launch("tel:" & Phone)  *** There is a Yellow triange stating Invalid Name.

Per earlier post I also entered Launch("tel://" & Phone) but it made no difference.

It seems I already selected the record and that I should be able to call the the telephone field "Phone".  But I am obviously missing something???

Again I am calling to a Sharepoint List.

Your thoughts Please.

Many Thanks.

[jarrystowe]

See my example below - this doesn't have anything to do with "Launch" but it should show you how to see what you have selected - as general practice when I am making applications I like to set up temporary text/label boxes that show selected values, so you know what you're working with - you should be able to implement this by

Launch("tel:/"& NameOfGallery.Selected.Phone) [I don't use launch though, but I know your formula was not selecting a record, so maybe this would work]